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Opera Concert Review: “Kátya Kabanová” at Boston Lyric Opera

March 18, 2015
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The opportunity to hear Leoš Janáček’s magnificent score live ultimately trumps any reservations I have about the production as a whole.

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Visual Arts Interview: “The Way We Live Now” — Blending Modernist Architecture and Contemporary Art

March 18, 2015
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“Working on The Way We Live Now was a natural process of learning about modernist architecture and the dominating visions of figures such as Le Corbusier, Mies, and Adolf Loos.”

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Book Review: “Happy Are the Happy” — You Can’t Get There from Here

March 17, 2015
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Yasmina Reza’s dollhouse of a novel is a miniaturist’s miracle.

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Fuse Remembrance: Postmodern Master Michael Graves — Architect and Innovative Product Designer

March 16, 2015
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Rejecting unadorned box-like designs, Michael Graves created with patterns, textures, decorations and color in ways large and small.

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Theater Review: Culture Clash at 30 — Still Making Ballsy Political Theater

March 16, 2015
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Culture Clash’s view of America will discomfort, which is all the more reason that I urge you — strongly — to attend.

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Fuse Film Review: “History of Fear” — From Argentina, At High Volume

March 16, 2015
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One leaves History of Fear feeling that the director wants to stir up our anxiety about the omnipresence of fear itself.

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Dance Review: Dorrance Dance’s “Blues Project” — Keeping Tap Alive

March 15, 2015
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Without being at all didactic, Michelle Dorrance reveres tap history by adapting traditional ideas, then resolving them unexpectedly.

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Theater Review: “The Colored Museum” — Raucous, Riveting, But Out of Sync

March 15, 2015
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George C. Wolfe’s 1986 collection of vignettes that spoof and celebrate black stereotypes occasionally plays like reruns from the ’90s TV show In Living Color.

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Theater Commentary/Review: On American Stages — No Politics, Please

March 14, 2015
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In 1939, Clifford Odets wrote that ‘we are living at a time when new art works should shoot bullets.” Fat chance of any shots coming from our voluntarily disarmed theaters.

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Video Game Review: “The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D” — Worthy of a Cult

March 14, 2015
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is the video game version of Groundhog’s Day — you’re Bill Murray, and it’s brilliant.

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